Cuddy had been as surprised as the next person when the rumour had first flown around the corridors of the hospital. House...as a parent? It was one of those things you just never expected to happen, but apparently sometimes the impossible happens. And now here he was, stood awkwardly in her office asking her to give his daughter...Amy...a job in the hospital.
"Correct me if I'm wrong here," she said, lowering her glasses and enjoying watching House...the Doctor House...squirm like a naughty little boy who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. "Amy is seventeen. She can't work here."
"Actually she's not seventeen until November." House corrected. "Cuddy I'm serious. She's more than good enough to work here."
"At sixteen? She cannot be a doctor at 16 years of age House! Get real."
"She moved to the States when she was 12, Cuddy and graduated High School within a fortnight - all she had do was take SATs. She scored a 1578." Cuddy allowed herself to look impressed. "She's been taking classes at Harvard for the past four years! Special arrangement with the Dean, two classes a semester. By the time she's officially old enough to apply she'll know more than most graduates. For God's sake she just diagnosed my patient!"
"She's still only sixteen House."
"The girl is a genius." This was what he hadn't wanted to do. Cuddy looked at him, and instead of seeing what she usually saw when she looked at House - a bitter, twisted, semi-mysogynistic doctor with a God complex. Instead, she saw a new side of him; the side that was insanely proud of his 'genius' of a daughter and wanted to show her off to the world, now that she wasn't a secret anymore. It was a nice side; and she relented.
"Think you can handle being your daughter's boss?" she asked. A rare smile flitted across his face. "Trial run only; one month. And five extra clinic hours a week."
"Deal." Cuddy struggled to maintain her composure; House agreeing to hours in the clinic? House in the meantime had left her office and was on his way to the Cafeteria - he had a salad to fetch.